{"id":10487,"date":"2011-04-07T01:28:42","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T05:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=10487"},"modified":"2011-12-15T23:34:07","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T04:34:07","slug":"not-so-basic-black-nails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/not-so-basic-black-nails\/","title":{"rendered":"Not-So-Basic Black Nails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> <\/strong>Gorgeous blogger Princess Poochie recently shared<a href=\"http:\/\/shoedaydreams.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/taking-shine.html\" target=\"_blank\"> a photo of a cool manicure<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10489\" style=\"width: 394px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chloesnails.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/my-favorite-manis-from-past-im-playing.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10489\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10489  \" title=\"Shiny black with matte black\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Shiny-black-with-matte-black.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Shiny-black-with-matte-black.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Shiny-black-with-matte-black-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10489\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ooh, pretty. Manicure by Erika of Chloe&#39;s Nails.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I immediately sent the photo to celebrity manicurist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.damalinyc.com\/our-team.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tracylee Percival<\/a>. I wish I had beautifully shaped nails like the lady in the original photo but I have sad, stubby, round nails. TracyLee and I decided that doing shiny moons would be better than shiny tips for me.<\/p>\n<p>Tracylee used Gelish&#8217;s Black Shadow and Essie&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Essie-Matte-About-You-0-5-Ounce\/dp\/B002G3K1TY\" target=\"_blank\">Matte About You<\/a> for this manicure. We&#8217;ve decided to name our manicure styles, so this one is &#8220;Matte Over the Moon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10488\" style=\"width: 442px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10488\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10488   \" title=\"matteoverthemoon\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/matteoverthemoon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/matteoverthemoon.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/matteoverthemoon-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10488\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nails by TracyLee Percival.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been wearing my <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/jewel-of-the-month-empress-wu-dragon-ring\/\" target=\"_blank\">Empress Wu dragon ring<\/a> a lot lately. I think it looks good with the black polish.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10521\" style=\"width: 440px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10521\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10521  \" title=\"blackmani\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/blackmani.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"430\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/blackmani.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/blackmani-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10521\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Empress Wu and the black manicure.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I keep trying to take a side-view picture of the ring on my finger, but I am getting bad results. I might have to call on MrB for assistance. That would be an extreme measure because, while MrB has an astounding number of excellent qualities, he&#8217;s not the type of blogger husband\/boyfriend who follows me around all day taking gorgeous fashion-y photos.\u00a0 Where the fuck was I when they were handing those out? Because I need one of those to take my blog to the next level. As a photographically blessed blogger once told me, &#8220;You&#8217;re beautiful in person &#8212; you need to take better pictures.&#8221; Um, thanks? <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gorgeous blogger Princess Poochie recently shared a photo of a cool manicure. I immediately sent the photo to celebrity manicurist Tracylee Percival. I wish I had beautifully shaped nails like the lady in the original photo but I have sad, stubby, round nails. TracyLee and I decided that doing shiny moons would be better than&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/not-so-basic-black-nails\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[348],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nail-polish","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10487"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13760,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10487\/revisions\/13760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}